This book collects Rolf's boldest, funniest, and most revealing journeys from his first 10 years as a travel writer  from crashing the set of a Leonardo DiCaprio movie in Thailand to learning the secrets of Tantric sex in a dubious Indian ashram. Each chapter contains a "commentary track"  humorous endnotes that reveal the ragged edges behind the experience and creation of each tale. Offbeat and insightful, this book is an engrossing read for students of travel writing as well as armchair wanderers. Book excerpt and full information available here.

"Vagabonding" is about taking time off from your normal life  from six weeks, to four months, to two years  to discover and experience the world on your own terms. Rolf shows how anyone armed with an independent spirit can achieve the dream of extended overseas travel. Outside magazine founding editor Tim Cahill calls Vagabonding "the most sensible book of travel related advice ever written." Book excerpt and full information available at Vagabonding.net.

Forewords and Introductions

Words of Mercury Tales from a Lifetime of TravelBy Patrick Leigh Fermor (Skyhorse, 2014)
Rolf penned the Foreword to this anthology of writing from every stage of Leigh Fermor's life, from his journey through Eastern Europe just before the outbreak of the Second World War, to his encounter with voodoo in Haiti, to a monastic retreat to Normandy to try to write a book, to his planned and executed kidnap of a German general under British orders. Written in a singular, elegant style, Leigh Fermor's tales have inspired generations of writers and continue to shape the language of travel.

Anthologies

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The Rolf Potts obscure collection
Some of the fiction and satire stories Rolf wrote while he was in college later wound up in small-press anthologies, including The Best of Pif Magazine: Off-Line, In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself, and On the Eighth Day God Laughed. More information about these titles, and Rolf's contributions to them, can be found here.